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Comment Gotta do something with AI (Score 1) 18

It is so stupid. You can almost feel the pressure CEOs are facing: what are you doing for AI.

Have some courage and respond: not much!

Instead they do something. Anything. It will be interesting to look back at this acquisition in a few years. Iâ(TM)m betting this thing will be dead and buried. With a few bits of technology folded in their other products to lessen their embarrassment.

Comment Re: Rookie Numbers (Score 1) 56

No, it doesnâ(TM)t.
Oh by the way, we are talking about some stupid features on a watch. Itâ(TM)s not like heâ(TM)s driving the third army across Europe to defeat the Nazis.
Itâ(TM)s all so effing stupid. Fire the guy and move on.
There are 50 others that could take his place and do fine without the cruelty.

Comment Perl? (Score 1) 80

The end times must be upon us.

Though, I will say it was useful when I set up my companyâ(TM)s first duct-tape-and-zip-tie CDN back in the late 90s for software downloads. All I was given was access to three distributed sun boxes that I could stash our binaries on, and run cgi scripts on Apache. I was able to redirect our paying customers to these servers and still have reasonable (but not perfect) confidence the files were hard to get for non paying customers. It used a simple token passing scheme. Perl was all I had, and I was able to do what I needed.

Comment Re: "you don't need a degree." (Score 1) 113

You must be new around here. The only engineers here know everything about code. They were born with it.

You, on the other hand, admitted that while you once thought you knew it all, you saw the error of your ways and learned some valuable lessons in the process.

Far too mature for this crowd. :)

(Seriously: excellent post. Thanks)

Comment Why use big banks (Score 1) 18

I have never understood people using big banks. I will admit I am not great with money, as opposed to all the self-proclaimed experts here on /. But one thing I think i am right about: I have always used community banks or credit unions for basic banking, by which I mean savings, checking, mortgage, and car loans. It is nice calling a guy down the street if you have a problem.

Comment Beware men in uniformsâ¦.. (Score 1) 32

Nvidia guy always irritates me with his leather jacket uniform. Personal brand. Whatever. Seems like he is a bit high on his own supply. I AM STEVE JOBS! Just like the creepy blood test lady, beware of people who think this way.

(Yes, cynical ones, I have my own uniform of khakis and button down shirts. But at least the colors and the patterns change from day to day!)

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